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If you haven’t caught up on The Clone Wars on Netflix, your time to do so is running short. According to Entertainment Weekly (via Club Jade), the animated Star Wars show is departing the streaming service on April 7th.
The show likely isn’t going away for long. Disney is expected to unveil its streaming service, Disney +, on April 11th, which will host a range of original programming, including a new season of the series, which was announced as an exclusive to the streaming service at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con.
When it launched in 2007, The Clone Wars was something of a novel experiment for the Star Wars franchise, and looking back, a precursor to Disney’s acquisition of the franchise in 2012. The series kicked off with a...
Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy A90 will feature a “Notchless Infinity screen” according to a page on the company’s website (first spotted by Galaxy Club) that appears to have been updated to include the unannounced model. The phone is expected to be announced next month and will sit at the top of Samsung’s mid-range Galaxy A series above the existing Galaxy A50 and Galaxy A30.
That could simply mean that the phone will have a hole-punch display like the Galaxy S10, but rumors have suggested that the Galaxy A90 will be able to avoid any cut-out by having a pop-up selfie camera, like last year’s Vivo Nex. Ice Universe, a frequent leaker, was first to make this claim back at the beginning of February, and Samsung’s promotion for its upcoming...
Scrunchies. A lot of scrunchies.
The crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 have rocked the aviation industry, sparked numerous investigations, and resulted in the grounding of hundreds of Boeing 737 Max jets worldwide.
As this important story continues to unfold, The Verge will update this page with all the latest news and analysis. Our hope is to answer all your questions about these tragic events, as well as provide a real-time feed of news about the ensuing investigations.
Lion Air Flight 610 took off from...
Last week, Netflix dropped the 18-episode series Love, Death + Robots, an anthology of short animated films produced by Seven director David Fincher and Deadpool director Tim Miller. The shorts range widely in tone and subject matter, with everything from mercenaries fighting Dracula to a thought experiment about silly ways Adolf Hitler could have died in alternate timelines. For source material, Fincher and Miller turned to existing short fiction from well-known science fiction authors, including Marko Kloos, Alastair Reynolds, and John Scalzi.
With the rise of streaming services and the success of shows like Game of Thrones, Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix have been rapidly snapping up big science fiction and fantasy novels for adaptation....
If you haven’t caught up on The Clone Wars on Netflix, your time to do so is running short. According to Entertainment Weekly (via Club Jade), the animated Star Wars show is departing the streaming service on April 7th.
The show likely isn’t going away for long. Disney is expected to unveil its streaming service, Disney +, on April 11th, which will host a range of original programming, including a new season of the series, which was announced as an exclusive to the streaming service at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con.
When it launched in 2007, The Clone Wars was something of a novel experiment for the Star Wars franchise, and looking back, a precursor to Disney’s acquisition of the franchise in 2012. The series kicked off with a...
Deadwood fans have been waiting for a film that would wrap up the events of the three-season HBO show for over a decade, and now HBO has given both a first look at Deadwood: The Movie and a May 31st release date.
The film will reportedly be set years later in the chronology of the show from when we last saw Al Swearengen (Ian Mcshane) and will see South Carolina officially joining the United States, along with the ramifications of that for the townsfolk.
Deadwood: The Movie sounds like a Deadwood fans’ dream for a series ending spectacular: nearly the entire original cast is back, including McShane and Timothy Olyphant as Seth Bullock, series creator and wriiter David Milch wrote the script, and its being directed by Daniel Minahan...
This morning, two astronauts will spacewalk on the outside of the International Space Station, in order to replace the vehicle’s aging nickel-hydrogen batteries with newer lithium-ion ones. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nick Hague are set to work for 6.5 hours today on the ISS’s exterior. Their work will continue the years-long process of upgrading the station’s eight main power channels, which are crucial for keeping the ISS functioning.
NASA first started replacing batteries on the ISS in 2017. The original nickel-hydrogen batteries have become less capable of holding a charge over time. “Just like your rechargeable batteries at home, eventually over time, they’re not going to recharge as well,” Kenny Todd, the missions operations...
Microsoft’s Clippy has had a hard life. Born in Office 97, Clippy politely offered hints for using Microsoft’s Office software. Often misunderstood, you either loved or hated its soulful eyes and “Groucho eyebrows” (as Microsoft described them) when it popped up on screen to please or annoy you. While Clippy lived a rather short and eventful life until Office XP in 2001, Microsoft killed off its Office Assistant in favor of new Office features like smart tags and task panes. Clippy has been trying to find a job at Microsoft ever since, and this week it looked like the loveable paperclip was back for good.
Microsoft resurrected Clippy on Tuesday, transforming the paperclip into an animated pack of stickers for the company’s Teams chat...
Microsoft’s Clippy has had a hard life. Born in Office 97, Clippy politely offered hints for using Microsoft’s Office software. Often misunderstood, you either loved or hated its soulful eyes and “Groucho eyebrows” (as Microsoft described them) when it popped up on screen to please or annoy you. While Clippy lived a rather short and eventful life until Office XP in 2001, Microsoft killed off its Office Assistant in favor of new Office features like smart tags and task panes. Clippy has been trying to find a job at Microsoft ever since, and this week it looked like the loveable paperclip was back for good.
Microsoft resurrected Clippy on Tuesday, transforming the paperclip into an animated pack of stickers for the company’s Teams chat...
At the end of last year, as we made our predictions about what 2019 would bring for social networks, I raised the prospect that it could be a hard year for Instagram. “I won’t guess the specifics,” I wrote, “but I do think 2019 will see some sort of reckoning over Instagram. Its charismatic founders are gone, the press is waking up to some long-simmering issues there, and there’s an increasing sense among a certain elite that looking at the app all the time is bad for you.”
As of today, that reckoning appears to be here. Instagram has faced plenty of criticism before now, particularly around bullying issues on the platform. But lately, the more that journalists explore its dark corners, the more cause they find for concern.
In The...
Huawei just can’t catch a break with the P30, its upcoming flagship that’s due to be revealed next week. Yesterday, Evan Blass spotted that an event page for the phone on the Huawei website was posted live early (as noted by 9to5Google), confirming the rumors that the phone would feature a quad-camera array, and detailing features including improved nighttime recording, and a new “dual-view” video mode.
This video mode, which the page says will be available post-launch in an update, is the most interesting new detail from the page. It suggests that you’ll be able to use two of the phones four cameras — namely the primary lens and the zoom lens — simultaneously, allowing you to see a close-up view and wide-angle view at the same time....
At the end of last year, as we made our predictions about what 2019 would bring for social networks, I raised the prospect that it could be a hard year for Instagram. “I won’t guess the specifics,” I wrote, “but I do think 2019 will see some sort of reckoning over Instagram. Its charismatic founders are gone, the press is waking up to some long-simmering issues there, and there’s an increasing sense among a certain elite that looking at the app all the time is bad for you.”
As of today, that reckoning appears to be here. Instagram has faced plenty of criticism before now, particularly around bullying issues on the platform. But lately, the more that journalists explore its dark corners, the more cause they find for concern.
In The...
Huawei just can’t catch a break with the P30, its upcoming flagship that’s due to be revealed next week. Yesterday, Evan Blass spotted that an event page for the phone on the Huawei website was posted live early (as noted by 9to5Google), confirming the rumors that the phone would feature a quad-camera array, and detailing features including improved nighttime recording, and a new “dual-view” video mode.
This video mode, which the page says will be available post-launch in an update, is the most interesting new detail from the page. It suggests that you’ll be able to use two of the phones four cameras — namely the primary lens and the zoom lens — simultaneously, allowing you to see a close-up view and wide-angle view at the same time....
Avengers: Endgame represents a cinematic saga 11 years in the making.
It is, in a nutshell, the star-studded finale to Marvel’s Phase 3, and a blockbuster the likes of which we’ve never seen before. We say that because of the incredible foundations upon which Endgame is built, stretching all the way back to 2008’s Iron Man. Oh, how far we’ve come.
But with so much backstory already in place, not to mention the devastating finale of Infinity War, you could say that Avengers: Endgame is so big that it didn’t even need a single trailer – and you’d probably be right. And while Marvel isn’t quite taking a complete blackout approach to the marketing – though they almost did – it’s fair to say that they’re still being pretty stingy when it comes to what they’re showing us.
Just take this new TV spot for example. Seen up above, it’s made up of the same clips and soundbites we’ve already seen several times now, failing to bring much in the way of fresh content to the table. There is, however, a brief new piece of dialogue courtesy of Steve Rogers, while that shot of Bruce looking awfully worried from the last trailer plays out for a second or two longer.
That aside, there isn’t really anything else in here that we haven’t seen before, but with only about a month to go now until release, do you really want anymore spoiled? Marvel clearly has a ton of surprises in store for us and given that we’ve never seen them be this secretive with the marketing of one of their films, we can only imagine what’s being kept under lock and key.
We’ll find out soon enough, of course, and in the meantime, we can probably expect at least another couple of TV spots. For the most part, though, the studio will be saving their biggest reveals for when Avengers: Endgame arrives in theaters on April 26th.